Pete Goss

Pete Goss, MBE is a Britishyachtsman who has sailed more than 250,000 nautical miles (460,000 km).

A former Royal Marine, he is famous for his pioneering project Team Philips.[1] He was invested in the Legion d'Honneur for saving fellow sailor Raphaël Dinelli in the 1996 Vendée Globe solo around the world yacht race. During a severe storm in the Southern Ocean, he turned his boat around and spent two days sailing into hurricane force winds, finally finding Dinelli in a life-raft that had been dropped by an Australian Air Force plane shortly before his own yacht had sunk. Dinelli is said to have come aboard clutching a bottle of champagne.[2]

Goss currently lives in Torpoint, Cornwall,[3] and has three teenage children: Alex, Livvy and Eliot.

In June 2008, Goss launched a replica of a 19th-century wooden lugger called Spirit of Mystery. Four months later, he began a voyage from Cornwall to Australia on the boat, which has no modern electrical or navigation systems.[4]